A start-up electric vehicle charging company has come up with a unique solution for charging vehicles using wind and solar power. Change Wind is developing the Wind and Solar Tower, a freestanding ...

Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at ETH Zürich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, says his system for converting ambient air into jet-ready kerosene fuel using a solar refinery tower isn’t ...

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The controversial Palen solar project is on hold, but its Spanish developer is powering ahead with plans to build massive solar towers across the Southwest. Abengoa Solar, which is based in Seville, ...

A bright future is dawning in China as the world's largest solar tower project (by expected tower capacity) recently broke ground — and it's a major win for people and the planet alike. Recently, ...

Tracking the sun, these concentrate solar radiation on a receiver that is about 22 square meters in size, installed at the top of a 60-meter tower. The receiver is made of porous ceramic elements ...

In theory, it's possible to create jet fuel from nothing more than water, CO2, and energy from the sun, but doing so outside of the laboratory has proved challenging. Now researchers have created the ...

Researchers in Jordan and Qatar have come up with a remarkable design for a "twin technology solar system" capable of generating clean energy 24/7. This double-action design promises more than twice ...

SolarReserve hits a milestone on a 110-megawatt solar power plant that will have between 10 and 15 hours of energy storage in tanks of molten salt for supplying Nevada. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

The HDPE cooling towers provide long service life and low maintenance. The advantages of using high-density polyethylene (HDPE)-based “plastic” cooling towers have been well received in the commercial ...

In 2021, a 260-meter high solar tower is set to rise in the Emirate of Dubai and, when the thousands of mirrors of its solar field turn to face to its summit, they will light up a CMI Energy receiver.

A solar-energy company has dropped a proposal to build a 75-story solar tower near California's Joshua Tree National Park employing technology that can cause birds to ignite in midair. The California ...